Troubleshooter: 01.17.11

Mike Baird/Caller-Times This pier stairway on McGee Beach has been closed because of maintenance needs, city officials said. It's one of two access points to the marina's jetty that is blocked to deter fishing. People have gone anyway.

Contributed photo This photo taken in April 1936 shows the bustle of activity along the Corpus Christi Marina jetty. There were formerly boat slips along it for people to dock so they could fish, swim and enjoy the bayfront.

Mike Baird/Caller-Times Raymond Rosales, 50 (left), and Justin Cemer, 30, maneuvered past barricades on the McGee Beach pier last week to enjoy the marina's jetty. It has been a fishing mainstay and tourist attraction on the bayfront since the 1920s. Access was blocked in 2009 for safety reasons, and it's supposed to be closed, parks officials said. People have still been using it.

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Mike Baird/Caller-Times Police sprayed no trespassing warnings onto the sides of the McGee Beach pier that leads to the marina's jetty. But the warning was not for fishermen wanting to get onto the jetty, it was to detour vagrants, city officials said.